IPTABLES-XML

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

iptables-xml
is used to convert the output of iptables-save into an easily manipulatable
XML format to STDOUT. Use I/O-redirection provided by your shell to write to
a file.

-c, --combine

combine consecutive rules with the same matches but different targets. iptables
does not currently support more than one target per match, so this simulates
that by collecting the targets from consecutive iptables rules into one action
tag, but only when the rule matches are identical. Terminating actions like
RETURN, DROP, ACCEPT and QUEUE are not combined with subsequent targets.

-v, --verbose

Output xml comments containing the iptables line from which the XML is derived

iptables-xml does a mechanistic conversion to a very expressive xml
format; the only semantic considerations are for -g and -j targets in
order to discriminate between <call> <goto> and <nane-of-target> as it
helps xml processing scripts if they can tell the difference between a
target like SNAT and another chain.